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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will respond in whatever way she can to Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's question is that the Deputy's parliamentary question was not discussed by the Cabinet sub-committee, nor should it be.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is unacceptable and an apology has been issued by the Garda Commissioner. The Policing Authority should have been informed. The chairperson of the independent Policing Authority, Ms Feehily, is doing an exemplary job in independently and objectively dealing with the issues for which it has responsibility and in respect of which further powers may well be given to it. The Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is not acceptable-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is certainly unprecedented and the situation is that it is not acceptable and the Garda Commissioner apologised profusely for it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Government has met.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Garda Commissioner and the chairperson of the independent Policing Authority do not attend Cabinet sub-committee meetings.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: No, to have meetings with the Garda Commissioner or the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Yes, we have had them before and they were there to give information about security----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Yes, but the Cabinet sub-committee deals with questions about police, policing and issues of governance and so on. It is not a situation where the Garda Commissioner attends at every Cabinet sub-committee.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: As the Deputy knows, the Cabinet sub-committees deal with issues about the relevant Departments and so on for recommendation for decision by Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy was at many of them himself and is well aware, for instance, in dealing with matters of finance that he did not have all the chief executives of the banks there-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----or the Governor of the Central Bank unless specifically requested. Government was dealing with this and Government has made its decision-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----in respect of the request from the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to the independent Policing Authority to deal with the mandatory alcohol testing and the fixed charge notices matters and to have a root and branch reform of the structure of An Garda Síochána and the future role and responsibility in terms of policing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The point is that Government will not sign off on it until the parties opposite have their say in respect of the proposition from Government and the inclusion of whatever recommendations are contained in the Fennelly report are considered by every Member of the Oireachtas so that we can try to get this right in the interests of its future role, responsibility and independence and the nature...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: In respect of Deputy Coppinger's comments, I believe that Mr. Justice Charleton is an exceptionally qualified person to conduct the commission of investigation, in respect of which he has been given the authority, terms of reference and facilities to do his job. I will not comment on the working method of his commission.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Mr. Justice Charleton is an exceptionally qualified person to do this job and he will be allowed to do his job. He expects to be able to report-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is asking me to comment on structures associated with the commission or people who may have to attend in front of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: That is entirely a matter for the sole person in charge of the commission, Mr. Justice Charleton, who is exceptionally qualified to do a first class job.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: In respect of Deputy Adams's point of view, the proposition for the setting up of a root and branch analysis of the future of the Garda came from the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality at Cabinet. As the Deputy knows, the Cabinet is the body which makes the ultimate decisions in respect of all Cabinet committees. That is why it was one of the many discussions that took...

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